Optimal DNS Ad Blocker

Re:Optimal DNS Ad Blocker by optimalrob on Friday July 29, 2016 @04:44PM (#12189840)

Hi I'm the CEO of Optimal, Rob. We use open source lists of adservers but have had to evolve from those lists since some of them are invalid or overly aggressive. We do not and will never make decisions about what to block based on being paid by any of these companies. We are building a consumer filtering system, and we are responsible to consumers. If you try it out and find any sites that don't work as intended please email us or contact support.

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Re:Optimal DNS Ad Blocker by DyslexicAtheist on Saturday July 30, 2016 @05:33AM (#12192300)

Hi,

Will you switch over to a paid service once you're out of beta?

Also what's your policy on logging?

Below (a probably outdated list of) privacy enhanced servers that don't log.

  # Swiss Privacy Foundation http://www.privacyfoundation.ch/de/service/server.html
  77.109.138.45
  77.109.139.29
  # www.censurfridns.dk http://www.censurfridns.dk/
  91.239.100.100
  89.233.43.71
  # CCC http://www.ccc.de/censorship/dns-howto
  85.214.20.141 
  204.152.184.76
  194.150.168.168
  213.73.91.35
  # Comodo Secure DNS https://www.comodo.com/secure-dns/
  8.26.56.26
  8.20.247.20
  # DNS Watch https://dns.watch/index
  84.200.69.80
  84.200.70.40
  # Fool DNS http://www.fooldns.com/fooldns-community/
  87.118.111.215
  # Free DNS http://freedns.zone/
  37.235.1.174
  37.235.1.177

take the above list to find the one fastest for you:

  for i in `cat dns.txt|grep -v '^#'`
  do 
    qt=`dig @$i techcrunch.com| grep "Query time:" |cut -f2 -d ':'`
    echo "$i: $qt"
  done

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Re:Optimal DNS Ad Blocker by optimalrob on Saturday July 30, 2016 @02:37PM (#12194121)

We will not - we intend to keep this service free. We hope that some portion of people sign up for our publisher tips, to reward journalists for great content. We take a percentage of they but just as I have publicly said most publishers should NOT block ad blocking users but it's up to them, we hope to provide an optional mechanism for people to pay. Longer term we think a lot of advertising is transformed by software. I wrote about this here - https://medium.com/@robleathern/artificial-intelligence-will...

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Re:Optimal DNS Ad Blocker by DyslexicAtheist on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @05:53AM (#12208793)

pretty cool, would probably be good if you mention the non-logging in your ToS or somewhere in an official statement. or by using a warrant canary clause somewhere ...

ask them to add you to:

https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS

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Re:Optimal DNS Ad Blocker by known on Monday August 01, 2016 @05:44AM (#12201153)

http://wiki.opennicproject.org/ClosestT2Servers

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Re:Optimal DNS Ad Blocker by DyslexicAtheist on Monday August 01, 2016 @06:25AM (#12201287)

I assume no statement from their CEO is also kind of a statement.

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Re:Optimal DNS Ad Blocker by owly on Saturday July 30, 2016 @07:39AM (#12192562)

@optimalrob Great work in simplifying ad blocking for all devices. Question, is Optimal working on an option to block adult content as well? OpenDNS Family Shield does an excellent job of this currently for home and school networks. We use it and dnsmasq to block all of the major ad networks. Good luck!

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Re:Optimal DNS Ad Blocker by optimalrob on Saturday July 30, 2016 @02:34PM (#12194112)

Open to it - I am very concerned about explicit ads being targeted to kids, but also sites that are not safe for kids. I think we would more likely look to partner with someone who is expert on the family side and they could utilize our ads expertise.

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